John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
That Nazty Nuisance (1943) Glenn Tryon, Bobby Watson, Joe Devlin, Johnny Arthur
Germany’s Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy’s Mussolini and Japan’s Suki Yama Read More »
Naïs (1943) Raymond Leboursier, Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin Read More »
Music in My Heart (1940) Joseph Santley, Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows
Rita Hayworth co-stars with famed recording artist Tony Martin in this musical comedy featuring the music of Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Read More »
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) George Marshall, A. Edward Sutherland, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he’s the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies Read More »
Second Chorus (1940) H.C. Potter, Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw
Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. Read More »
Dead Men Tell (1941) Harry Lachman, Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon
Eccentic, elderly matron Patience Nodbury has a treasure map she’s inherited from Black Hook, her pirate ancestor. Read More »
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) Henry Koster, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate Read More »
Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) Harry Lachman, Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright
Charlie and son Jimmy visit an exotic Rio nightclub in the company of local police chief Suoto Read More »
Adventures of Kitty O’Day (1945) William Beaudine, Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan
Dragging along her spineless boyfriend Johnny, hare-brained secretary Kitty O’Day is unstoppable as she tries to determine her boss’s murderer. Read More »
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) F. Hugh Herbert, June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. Read More »
The Teachers on Summer Vacation AKA Magistrarna på sommarlov (1941) Schamyl Bauman, Alice Babs, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Thor Modéen
Inga Danell’s summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study. Read More »
The El Paso Kid (1946) Thomas Carr, Sunset Carson, Marie Harmon, Hank Patterson
In this Western, an outlaw tries to escape from a gang of robbers after they refuse to assist a gang member wounded during a stagecoach caper. Read More »
Married and in Love (1940) John Farrow, Alan Marshal, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates Read More »
Friendly Enemies (1942) Allan Dwan, Charles Winninger, Charles Ruggles, James Craig
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things Read More »